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Ł109m New York art sale echoes the good old days

06.11.09

Art prices soared back to pre-crash levels in New York as bidders from Europe, China and Russia broke sales records for Impressionist and modern pictures... more

Look but don’t touch at V&A’s ceramics rooms

16.09.09

It's enough to test the nerve of any curator: setting up 3,300 of the world’s most precious but supremely breakable works of art and craft... more

Grow your own: transforming skips into vegetable beds

13.08.09

The imaginative company Global Generation has transformed disused skips into vegetable beds, using an ingenious design.... more

Our guide to the best gallery food in town

15.07.09

Gallery food has come a long way since the days when all art fans had to choose from was a limited array of clingfilmed meals. Here’s our pick of the best.... more

Picasso's two musketeers: One for almost Ł7m and all for Ł15m

18.06.09

Two paintings by Pablo Picasso created on successive days will be sold by rival auction houses for a total upper estimate of Ł15million this month... more

Where you can find the city’s paintings and artefacts brought to life by moonlight

13.05.09

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The glove that changed Guernica

08.05.09

In 1937, the blitzing of a Spanish town prompted Picasso to begin work on a vast painting – but one poignant item gave his masterpiece its final form.... more

Ł9.8m Picasso gives art market a shot in the arm

07.05.09

A victim of disgraced Wall Street financier Bernie Madoff sold his Picasso painting for nearly Ł10million at Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art auction in New York, helping to revive the ailing art market... more

Ignore the Puritans - mother knows best

02.04.09

Pity the pregnant woman who has the audacity to contemplate a second drink. Caroline Williams, 26, five months pregnant, was thrown out of The Cricketer in Hove for taking a sip from a friend's glass... more

Picasso painting Guernica back in Whitechapel

23.03.09

A copy of Picasso's anti-war painting Guernica which is normally on show at the United Nations in New York is being installed at the Whitechapel Gallery... more

The art market miracle

16.03.09

As London’s art dealers descend on the world’s biggest selling fair, Godfrey Barker reveals how their trade is bucking the trend as investors choose to put their money in masterpieces not the banks... more

Poor Picasso

27.02.09

Picasso is not served well by the National Gallery's new show but there are enough thrilling pictures to make it worthwhile.... more

St Laurent's Deco armchair sells for a record Ł19m

26.02.09

The three-day sale in Paris of the paintings, furniture and objets d’art of Yves St Laurent ended last night in record prices and a stampede out of money into art... more

50 ways to have fun in 2009

02.01.09

Priscilla on stage, Blur reunited, Michael Sheen as Brian Clough — we bring you the highlights of London’s arts calendar for the coming months. ... more

Money isn't everything, says art dealer who gave $3m sale profit to charity

31.12.08

A leading art dealer has shrugged off the credit crunch by donating 75 per cent of his profits to charity... more

Exhibition to show how Picasso pilfered the classics

04.12.08

The National Gallery is to host a major Picasso exhibition in the New Year, it has emerged ... more

Teetering on the brink

03.12.08

As the stock market gets lower, heels are getting higher, and the most outrageous shoes are being dragged out from the back of the wardrobe... more

Whitechapel Gallery set for Ł13.5m revival

18.11.08

The Whitechapel Gallery will turn to its pioneering past when it re-opens after a Ł13.5million expansion next year... more

Art world prices evaporate

07.11.08

The once booming international art market suffered another major hit from the global economic downturn last night... more

Oh! What a lovely Cold War exhibition

19.09.08

Art and design, displayed with coherence and humour, throw new light on a dark era for the Cold War Modern: Design exhibition.... more

Red light at the National

16.09.08

An entire room at the National Gallery is to be transformed into a scene from Amsterdam's red-light district... more

Celebration as Sotheby's sale tops Ł100 million

26.06.08

Sotheby's is celebrating after more than £100 million was spent during a night of record-breaking art sales... more

The capital's must-see Spring exhibitions

13.03.08

From Renoir and Picasso to Tutankhamun to the Terracotta Army, Daralyn Danns and Niki Chesworth check out the must-see exhibitions this Easter.... more

What an ugly business

25.01.08

The Government's capitulation to the Russians to guarantee the RA's latest show is morally indefensible, says Brian Sewell.... more

Ł20m Van Gogh left on shelf

08.11.07

High profile impressionist paintings failed to sell at auction at Sotheby's in New York prompting fears that art's dizzy boom could be nearing an end. ... more

Iron curtain masterpieces at the Royal Academy

22.10.07

Modern masterpieces from Russia's greatest museums including one of Henri Matisse's most famous works are to go on show in London.... more

Picasso's drunken doodle fetches Ł250,000

02.04.07

The only mural to be produced by Pablo Picasso in England is to become the centrepiece at a new London gallery.... more

Ł35m Picassos stolen from grand-daughter

01.03.07

Two Picasso paintings worth Ł35 million have been stolen from his grand-daughter's flat in Paris.... more

Nazi claim halts sale of Lloyd Webber's Picasso

09.11.06

As the £30 million Absinthe Drinker is withdrawn from auction at the last minute, we reveal a secret deal over another masterpiece looted by the Germans during the war.... more

$30m for paintings in bumper art sale

08.11.06

Two artworks have each sold for more than $30 million at the biggest Sotheby's auction of Impressionist and modern art in 16 years. The sale in New York made a total of $238 million. ... more